Description
Francis Hutcheson's first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition.
The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.
Wolfgang Leidhold is Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne.
Author: Francis Hutcheson
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 271
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780865977730
ISBN10: 0865977739
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy